1Txawm yog tej lug cog tseg thawj zag hov kuj muaj kevcai pe hawm hab muaj lub chaw pe hawm huv lub nplajteb. 2Lub tsev ntaub muab tsaa lawm. Huv chaav ib muaj lub teeb, lub rooj hab cov ncuav xyeem txawb rua ntawm Vaajtswv xubndag. Chaav nuav hu ua Chaav Dawb Huv. 3Saab huv daim ntaub thaiv muaj ib chaav kws hu ua Chaav Dawb Huv Kawg Nkaus. 4Huv chaav hov muaj lub thaaj kub kws hlawv moov tshuaj tsw qaab hab muaj lub swb xaab sws cog lug kws luam kub thoob plawg txhua faab huvsw, saab huv muaj ib lub miv hub kub ntim mana, hab muaj Aloo tug paas nreg kws tawg cos paaj hab ob daim txag zeb kws sau tej lug cog tseg. 5Muaj ob tug Khelunpee kws muaj Vaajtswv tug fwjchim ci ntsaa ab nthuav tis rua sau lub hau swb xaab kws roog kev txhum. Tej nuav peb has tsw tau txhua rua ntawm nuav. 6Thaus npaaj tej nuav txhwj lawm, cov pov thawj pheej nkaag moog ua puab teg num lawv le tej kevcai tsw tu ncua rua huv chaav kws ib. 7Tassws chaav kws ob tsuas yog tug tuam pov thawj hlub tuab leeg nkaag tau ib xyoo ib zag xwb, hab yuav tsum coj tej ntshaav moog xyeem daws nwg lub txem hab daws cov pejxeem lub txem kws tsw yog txhob txwm ua. 8Qhov nuav Vaaj Ntsuj Plig kws dawb huv txhad qha meej tas tsw tau qheb kev moog rua huv chaav kws Dawb Huv Kawg Nkaus rua thaus chaav kws ib tseed muaj nyob. 9Chaav ntawd pev txug tam nuav ntaag, txhais has tas qhov kws muab hov txhua chaw xyeem hab tua tsaj xyeem ua tsw tau kuas tug kws pe hawm Vaajtswv lub sab zoo hlo. 10Tej hov tsuas yog has txug tej zaub mov hab dej haus hab tej kevcai ntxuav xwb, yog tej kevcai kws has txug lub cev nqaj tawv moog txug lub swjhawm kws muab hloov dua tshab. 11Tassws thaus Kheto lug ua tug tuam pov thawj hlub kws tu txhua yaam zoo kws tub lug txug lawm, nwg kuj nkaag moog rua huv lub tsev ntaub kws luj dua hab zoo kawg nkaus kws tsw yog tuabneeg txhais teg ua hab tsw yog tswm rua huv lub nplajteb nuav. 12Nwg nkaag tuab zag rua huv chaav kws Dawb Huv Kawg Nkaus mas txaus lawm, hab nwg tsw coj ntshaav tshws ntshaav thaav nyuj moog tassws coj nwg cov ntshaav moog ntaag, txhad txhwv tau tuabneeg moog ib txhws. 13Yog tas ntshaav tshws ntshaav txwv nyuj hab tshauv xyuas nyuj kws muab nchus rua sau tug kws qas tsw huv ntxuav tau nwg lub cev nqaj tawv kuas dawb huv, 14mas heev dua ntawd Kheto cov ntshaav kws nwg muab nwg tug kheej kws tsw muaj ib qho chaw thuaj xyeem rua Vaajtswv ntawm Vaaj Ntsuj Plig kws nyob moog ib txhws, kuj yimfuab ntxuav tau peb lub sab kuas dawb huv ntawm tej num kws coj moog txug kev tuag sub peb txhad moog ua koom rua Vaajtswv kws muaj txujsa nyob. 15Vem le nuav Kheto yog tug kws nyob nruab nraab huv tej lug cog tseg tshab, sub txhua tug kws Vaajtswv hu lug txhad tau txais qub txeeg qub teg kws nyob moog ib txhws lawv le cog lug tseg, vem qhov kws ib tug tuag txhwv puab dim huv tej kev faav xeeb kws puab ua rua thaus nyob huv qaab tej lug cog tseg qub tswjfwm. 16Has txug tej ntawv kws sau faib qub txeeg qub teg ua ntej ca, kuj yuav tsum paub tseeb tas tug kws sau ntawv ca hov tub tuag lawm tag. 17Yuav yog tug sau ntawv faib tuag lawm txhad swv tau tsaab ntawv hov. Yog tug sau tseed muaj txujsa nyob tsaab ntawv faib hov kuj swv tsw tau. 18Yog le ntawd tej lug cog tseg zag ib yeej yuav tsum muaj ntshaav lug txhad swv tau. 19Vem thaus Mauxe pav tej kevcai txhua nqais rua cov pejxeem suavdawg nwg kuj muab ntshaav mivnyuas nyuj hab ntshaav tshws hab dej hab plaub yaaj lab hab zaub txwg theem lug nchus rua thooj ntawv hab cov pejxeem suavdawg, 20hab has tas, “Cov ntshaav nuav yog lub hom thawj kws nas rua tej lug cog tseg kws Vaajtswv kuas mej ua.” ⚓21Hab nwg muab cov ntshaav nchus rua lub tsev ntaub hab txhua yaam pes twj kws swv ua koom rua Vaajtswv ib yaam nkaus. 22Qhov tseeb lawv le txuj kevcai txhua yaam yuav luag raug ntshaav ntxuav kuas dawb huv, yog tsw muaj ntshaav lug kuj tsw muaj kev zaam txem le.
Yexu rws tuabneeg lub txem
23Vem le nuav tej kws yog yaam kws nyob sau ntuj tug yaam ntxwv yuav tsum raug muab ntxuav kuas dawb huv lawv le tej kevcai hov, tassws tej kws yeej yog sau ntuj le mas yuav tsum muab tej kws tswm txaj dua ntawd xyeem ntxuav. 24Tsua qhov Kheto tsw tau nkaag moog rua lub chaw dawb huv kws tuabneeg txhais teg ua, kws zoo le tug qauv kws muaj tseeb, tassws nwg ca le nkaag moog rua huv ntuj ceeb tsheej ntaag txhad le moog nyob ntawm Vaajtswv lub xubndag paab peb. 25Hab tsw yog nwg rov muab nwg tug kheej xyeem taag xyeem thab ib yaam le tug tuam pov thawj hlub kws naj xyoo nkaag moog rua huv chaav Dawb Huv Kawg Nkaus hab coj ntshaav kws tsw yog nwg le moog. 26Yog ua le ntawd Yexu yuav tsum raug kev tswm txom ntau zag txwj thaus tswm ntuj tswm teb lug. Tassws qhov tseeb nwgnuav nwg tsuas lug tshwm tuab zag rua tam kawg nuav xwb txhad rhuav tshem lub txem taag huvsw yog qhov kws nwg muab nwg tug kheej xyeem. 27Ib yaam le kws teem ca rua tuabneeg tuag tuab zag xwb hab tom qaab kuj raug txav txem le caag, 28Kheto kuj zoo ib yaam le ntawd. Nwg tsuas raug muab xyeem tuab zag xwb txhad rws tau tuabneeg coob coob lub txem. Nwg yuav lug tshwm zag ob tsw yog lug rhuav tshem lub txem tassws coj txujkev dim lug rua cov kws tog rawv nwg.
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Worship in the Earthly Tabernacle
1Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary. 2A tabernacle was set up. In its first room were the lampstand and the table with its consecrated bread; this was called the Holy Place. 3Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place, 4which had the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. This ark contained the gold jar of manna, Aaron’s staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant. 5Above the ark were the cherubim of the Glory, overshadowing the atonement cover. But we cannot discuss these things in detail now. 6When everything had been arranged like this, the priests entered regularly into the outer room to carry on their ministry. 7But only the high priest entered the inner room, and that only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance. 8The Holy Spirit was showing by this that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still functioning. 9This is an illustration for the present time, indicating that the gifts and sacrifices being offered were not able to clear the conscience of the worshiper. 10They are only a matter of food and drink and various ceremonial washings—external regulations applying until the time of the new order.
The Blood of Christ
11But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that are now already here,⚓ he went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not made with human hands, that is to say, is not a part of this creation. 12He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, thus obtaining⚓ eternal redemption. 13The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean. 14How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death,⚓ so that we may serve the living God! 15For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant. 16In the case of a will,⚓ it is necessary to prove the death of the one who made it, 17because a will is in force only when somebody has died; it never takes effect while the one who made it is living. 18This is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood. 19When Moses had proclaimed every command of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves, together with water, scarlet wool and branches of hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people. 20He said, “This is the blood of the covenant, which God has commanded you to keep.”⚓21In the same way, he sprinkled with the blood both the tabernacle and everything used in its ceremonies. 22In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. 23It was necessary, then, for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with human hands that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God’s presence. 25Nor did he enter heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own. 26Otherwise Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But he has appeared once for all at the culmination of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, 28so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.